Reversible or Not? Distinguishing Agglomeration and Aggregation at the Nanoscale

Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 87, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 10033-10039

  Sokolov, Stanislav V ^a   Tschulik, Kristina ^a   Batchelor McAuley, Christopher ^a   Jurkschat, Kerstin ^a   Compton, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COLLOIDS; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IONIC STRENGTH; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOPARTICLES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; HIGH IONIC STRENGTH; INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLES; IRREVERSIBLE AGGREGATION; NANOPARTICLE AGGREGATION; NANOPARTICLE TRACKING ANALYSIS; REVERSIBLE PROCESS;

SILVER;

COLLOID; NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COLLOIDS; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84943178729     PISSN: 00032700     EISSN: 15206882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02639     Document Type: Article

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